FORTY-HOUR WEEK
COURT TO HEAR SHOPPING TRADE GASES FIRST [Per United Press AssooiitxoK.] WELLINGTON, July 6. The Arbitration Court consented to the adjournment of applications in the engineering industry in respeJt of the 40-hour week, the delay being grounded on pending conciliation proceedings. The butchery trade case was also delayed, its application being amended from a 40-hour week to a 40-iour fiveday week. . Mr Croskery asked if it vould be possible to take all the shopping trades at the same time. It would_ be unfair, lie said, to close one sectioji of the shops on Saturdays and leave another section open. _ I Mr Justice Page said the court would like to have all the shopping _ trades disposed of, as it was advisably in view of the decisions that had besn made regarding Saturday work in Hher industries, tha the court should hear the submissions regarding the shopping trades first. _ j Tho range-making industry vas dealt with, and decision reserved, j
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Evening Star, Issue 22383, 6 July 1936, Page 8
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